U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman’s first public reaction to the Houston Chronicle’s recent stories about his campaign-finance and financial-disclosure issues was to cast doubt on their accuracy in typical, colorful Stockman fashion.

But the journalist interviewing him did his own research, and found the Chronicle stories accurate. Stockman, not so much.

Reporter Matthew Boyle of breitbart.com, a conservative political-news website, interviewed Stockman, R-Friendswood, about his recent decision to run against U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Boyle reported: “Stockman claimed during his interview with Breitbart News that the Houston Chronicle was “making up” information and facts that were not actually on the financial disclosure forms he filed with the U.S. House of Representatives. “That’s inaccurate,” Stockman said when asked about the company “Presidential Trust Marketing” and about the $350,000 he allegedly made from it. “You pull the report. It doesn’t match what they say. They insistently say $350,000. It’s like, ‘where are you getting that?’ They say ‘offshore banks.’ Where are they getting this shit? They’re making it up and I’m not going to talk about it. You can duplicate some of their research and find out it’s not true.”

But Boyle’s story went on to say that he subsequently took Stockman up on his suggestion, looked up the disclosure and the Chronicle story about it, and found that the Chronicle “was accurately reporting” the details of Stockman’s disclosures.

Boyle reported that when he asked Stockman what Presidential Trust Marketing was, Stockman refused to answer. Stockman has repeatedly refused to answer several sets of questions from Chronicle reporters.

Boyle also asked Stockman about earlier Chronicle stories that reported various problems with campaign finance reports, including apparently prohibited donations, and also that his campaign office in Webster, Texas, was closed down for safety violations.